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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1997, 6:38 PM CDT for Colorado County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1997, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colorado County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHOU 072345 RRA TORHOU TXC089-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 638 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...SOUTHERN COLORADO COUNTY AROUND 630 PM...THE COLUMBUS SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBUS NEAR ALTAIR ALONG HIGHWAY 71. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY AND PERSONS IN THE ALTAIR COMMUNITY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLILITY OF A SHORT LIVED TORNADO. IF YOU SEE SEVERE WEATHER TAKING PL4ACE... CALL YOUR REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR IMMEDIATE RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 7, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
SOUTHEAST TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 259 PM CDT SAT JUN 7 1997 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS GOING OVER ALL BUT THE SW ZONES. VERY SLOW MOVING STORMS PRODUCING TOTALS OF 2-3 PER HR VIA 88D. CENTER OF THE MCV REMAINS NEAR SEALY AND DAYTIME HEATING HELPING TO KEEP THE PRECIP FOCUSED TO THE EAST. SOMEWHAT DIFFUSE STATIONARY FRONT FROM NEAR CLL TO NRN LAKE LIVINGSTON AND THEN WANDERING OFF TO THE EAST ALSO A FOCUS FOR HEAVY RAINS. WILL KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING FOR THIS EVENING AND LET THE EVENING SHIFT CALL AN END TO THE FFA. ETA/MESO-ETA/NGM FAIRLY CLOSE ON THE SOLUTION OF THE STATIONARY FRONT FINALLY LIFTING NORTH AS CUTOFF OVER THE SW US LIFTS NE ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH ETAS MOIST AXIS WILL BE OVER THE AREA DO NOT SEE A PARTICULARLY GOOD FOCUS FOR CONVECTION SO WILL GO WITH SCATTERED TSRA SUNDAY AND TAILING OFF SUNDAY NIGHT TOWARD THE COAST...SCATTERED MONDAY AS WELL. WEST COAST KICKS OUT NM LOW AND TAKES UP RESIDENCE OVER THE WEST COAST THROUGH THU EJECTING WEAK S/WS OUT OVER THE PLAINS. WEAK LOW DEVELOPS IN THE GULF ON TUESDAY WILL BE KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS. SUBSTANCIAL LOW DEVELOPING OVER THE SRN PLAINS TOWARD THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. TEMPS WILL LIKELY STAY ON THE COOLER SIDE OF MOS SUNDAY AND THEN INCREASE FOR MONDAY. 45 PRELIMS CLL EEE 71/85/72/88 5444 IAH EEE 72/85/73/87 5434 GLS EEE 77/84/76/85 4434
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 8:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Colorado | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 11:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Colorado | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 3:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Austin, Washington | 3 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.